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TINEA PELLIONELLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tinea pellionella mean? 

TINEA PELLIONELLA (noun)
  The noun TINEA PELLIONELLA has 1 sense:

1. the larvae live in tubes of its food material fastened with silk that it spinsplay

  Familiarity information: TINEA PELLIONELLA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TINEA PELLIONELLA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The larvae live in tubes of its food material fastened with silk that it spins

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

casemaking clothes moth; Tinea pellionella

Hypernyms ("Tinea pellionella" is a kind of...):

clothes moth (any of several small yellowish or buff-colored moths whose larvae eat organic matter e.g. woolens)

Holonyms ("Tinea pellionella" is a member of...):

genus Tinea; Tinea (type genus of the Tineidae: clothes moths)


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